Food & Drink
Summer is road-trip season, so we're taking a culinary tour of America. But because Portland is a city of immigrants from other states, we don't have to leave town to do it. We're traveling to 50 Portland restaurants to try one distinctive food from each state. Our 50 Plates tour continues with Taylor Ham on a hard roll from New Jersey, which joined the union on December 18, 1787.The state: New Jersey, ...
More

Food Cart Reviews
You want some good marinara, you go get it from some guy’s
Sicilian grandma in New Jersey. If that fails, you get it from the guy
with a grandma in New Jersey. At Bones & Bits, two lifelong
More

ESB Amber Ale: Flying Fish Brewing Co., Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Food & Drink
We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers. #21 ESB Amber Ale: Flying Fish Brewing Co., Cherry Hill, New Jersey State: This stretch of land has given the country Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, yours truly, Danny DeVito, Bill Parcells, and John Travolta, among many, many others. Yet most people don’t ...
More

Music
Saturday. We were picked up promptly at 12:30 pm to head to NJPAC. We practiced our songs a ton in our dressing room and we were feeling confident. We got a bottle of Jim Beam, which Jon (our guitarist) claims he risked his life for (Newark's a tough town) to calm our last remaining nerves before showtime. During rehearsal Garrison had this idea that he wanted to do a "round robin" where each band ...
More

News
A reminder from Basic Rights Oregon that the New Jersey state Senate is taking up gay marriage today, though the prospects for marriage rights in that state don't look so good. If New Jersey lawmakers don't OK marriage rights for gays and lesbians, it would be the latest example of a seeming stall for the cause of gay rights between domestic partnership and full marriage rights. UPDATE: Gay ...
More